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Scrutiny On The Bounty: How Media Influences the College Woman
(Note: the following is a guest post written by Kayley Eshenaur, a 21-year-old senior at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. I haven’t done much yet in this blog to address the anxiety that many...
View ArticleMy TEDx Talk: Anxiety — Hibernate, Adapt, or Migrate?
Awhile back, I wrote about how nervous I was to speak at my local TEDx event in Williamsport, PA. I was pretty scared. Would I get lightheaded? Would I pass out? What if I couldn’t remember anything I...
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The Matrix Has You: On Dissociation and Feelings of Detachment
(Note: the following is a guest post by Justin Matheson, a fellow anxiety sufferer and blogger over at Anxiety Really Sucks!.) I had my first panic attack about a year and a half ago, and it was the...
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The Trifecta Of Fail: A Desolate Road, A Panic Attack, And An Ambulance
The title alone tells the story…right? But allow me to fill in the gaps and explain why, over the past week, I’ve been doing so much mental hopscotch over this incident. Panic disorder sure has its...
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The Trifecta of Fail, Continued: Panic In The Middle Of Nowhere
(If you missed the first half of this story, click here first.) So, there I was: holding my cell phone and sitting in the driver’s seat of my car on a small side road in the woods with no reception....
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Man on Stress-Related Sick Leave Fired For Wrestling A Shark
If you’re too ill to work, how can you wrestle a shark? That’s the question that Paul Marshallsea’s employer asked after seeing footage of the Welsh man dragging a shark away from swimmers while on...
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The Trifecta Of Fail: Man Calls Ambulance While I Continue to Panic
(If you missed the first two chunks of this story, click here first and here second.) This is the story of (one of) the worst panic attacks of my life. It happened in the middle of nowhere on a...
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The End Of The Trifecta: How The Worst Panic Attack Of My Life Ended
(If you missed the first three parts of this story, click here, then here , and then here.) The scene: a small road off of a two-lane state highway in the woods. The cell phone coverage: first none,...
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Anxiety’s Complex Root System: From Green Shoot To Buried Root
Every spring, I start refilling the bird feeder on my back deck with seeds. As the birds (and, ugh, squirrels) flit around during their meal, they accidentally scatter seeds everywhere. They fall down...
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Anxiety’s Complex Root System: From Househunting to Meta-Crying
Every spring, I fill my birdfeeder to the brim with seeds. We get cardinals and chickadees and titmice. They’re messy buggers, though, and they fling (most of) the seed down from the feeder into the...
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Tales From The Anxiety Med-Go-Round: Why I Hated Paxil
I haven’t talked about meds on this blog for some time. And it’s been an intentional choice. It’s been a whopping 6 years since I took my last shard of Paxil. (Yes, shard — in my final weeks of...
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Tales From The Anxiety Med-Go-Round: You Can’t Live On Saltines
I’m an advocate of being open and honest about mental health. I try to lead by example (with this blog!) by talking candidly about my anxiety disorder. But there’s one thing I haven’t been sharing....
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Tales From The Anxiety Med-Go-Round: The Buspar Brain Zaps
Earlier, I wrote about how I began to struggle with panic attacks again — in a pretty severe way — about three years after withdrawing myself from Paxil, an SSRI medication that treats anxiety...
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Tales From The Anxiety Med-Go-Round: Fool Me Twice, Shame On Me
The scene: late summer, on a leave of absence from my cubicle-farm workplace. The culprit? Panic. Really bad panic that was keeping me, for the most part, stuck in my apartment. Most days, I was too...
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Our First #WinWednesday: How’d You Overcome Anxiety This Week?
(Note: We spend so much time dwelling on the debilitating effects of our anxiety disorders, don’t we? I sure as hell do. Why not devote an entire day to focusing on our accomplishments [instead of our...
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#WinWednesday: Surviving the Anxiety of “The Wait”
(Note: We spend so much time dwelling on the debilitating effects of our anxiety disorders, don’t we? Why not devote an entire day to focusing on our accomplishments [instead of our bumps in the road]?...
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Tales From The Anxiety Med-Go-Round: That Twinkle In My Eye
Earlier, I wrote about how I began to struggle with panic attacks again — in a pretty severe way — about three years after withdrawing myself from Paxil, an SSRI medication that treats anxiety...
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Five Tips For Minimizing House-Hunting Stress
Yes, my husband and I are buying a house. Oh, the excitement! A house of our very own. A house where we’ll raise kids and grow old together. We’re buying a house! (Well, we’re trying to.) It’s a...
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Emetophobia: The Ugly Fear Of Nausea And Vomiting
(Trigger warning for emetophobes: the “N” and “V” words are used in this post.) I really wanted to do another “Win Wednesday” post yesterday, but I couldn’t. And why, you might ask? Well, I was hanging...
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Tapering Off Of Celexa: My First Two Weeks
I made my first dosage cut about two weeks ago. Before we talk numbers, I just want to reiterate something — the word about. Yeah. See how I’ve used it in the opening sentence? About two weeks ago....
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